The money network:

The money network:

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China’s $1.7 trillion hangover

China’s $1.7 trillion hangover

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September 2002

Country risk - methodology



ResultsTo obtain the overall country risk score, Euromoney assigns a weighting to the nine categories listed below. The best underlying value per category achieves the full weighting (25, 10 or 5); the worst scores zero and all other values are calculated relative to these two. The formula used is the following: A - (A / (B-C)) x (D–C), where A = category weighting; B = lowest value* in range; C = highest value* in range, D = individual value.*NB For debt indicators and debt in default, B and C are reversed in the formula, as the lowest score receives the full weighting and the highest gets zero.• Political risk (25% weighting): the risk of non-payment or non-servicing of payment for goods or services, loans, trade-related finance and dividends, and the non-repatriation of capital. Risk analysts give each country a score between 10 and zero - the higher, the better. This...


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